Hello there,
How to simulate the atmega328 MCU power consumption using Simulink in Matlab?, are there other simulation softwares can be used for MCUs power simulations?
Many thanks.
I think, that use of Simulink is not a good Idea due to absence of thermal data in standard blockset and high-deviation of any constructed analytic power consumption model from obtained by real thermostat-based measurements.
You may focused onto two things: 1) finding of adequate IBIS-like model for this MCU, which contains numeric data measured from real MCU package under different conditions; 2) to compose a simplified thermal model using data-sheet parameters (thermal resistances) and experimental results based on VI-measurements simultaneously with thermostat data. Look for model here:
http://www.ti.com/lit/an/spra953c/spra953c.pdf
http://cache.freescale.com/files/analog/doc/white_paper/BasicThermalWP.pdf
Note, that power consumption significantly depends on software configuration (amount of active MCU peripheral and mainly of selected System Clock Frequency). That's why simulation must be performed in all MCU modes.
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